Our Committees and Workgroups.
Peer sharing is at the heart of HealthEfficient. HealthEfficient hosts several committees and workgroups to enable our health centers to collaborate, share, and learn from one another. These workgroups also provide us with great feedback on how we can best support our health centers in achieving their clinical, operational, and financial goals. Summary information is provided below, and you can learn more about the scope of each group, meeting schedules, facilitators, and other details in this detailed handout.
Provider Steering Committee
This committee comprises leading providers from our 35+ member health centers, who help set the vision and strategy for our network. Topics include approaches to patient engagement and access; provider burden; using HIT to improve quality and population health; and clinical topics like diabetes, hypertension, cancer screening, and Opioid Use.
Open to: All members
Patient Engagement
In this peer workgroup, we explore the best strategies to drive patient engagement, including patient portals, kiosks, wearable devices, text campaigns, and more. We examine the technologies and workflows that need to change to enable the effective use of these tools in the health center environment.
Open to: All Members
Operations
Our Operations Committee is a long-standing peer sharing group for COOs, Operations Managers, and other practice administrators. Compliance with federal/state requirements, strategies for front desk and call center, and customer service are popular topics.
Open to: Full and Participating Members
CMO Roundtable
CMOs face unique challenges in today’s healthcare environment. As productivity demands have risen and documentation moved entirely to the Electronic Health Record, CMOs have had to balance a growing number of competing priorities. This roundtable offers the opportunity to share with their peers the challenges they face and the solutions they’ve found.
Open to: CMOs from all members
Opioid Use Disorder
With the Opioid Crisis ongoing, health centers face obstacles in prevention, screening, treatment, and recovery for those at risk for or having an Opioid Use Disorder. This workgroup enables providers, program directors, and others to share and learn from each other how to address this intractable issue.
Open to: Providers and SUD program directors
Revenue Cycle
Our newest workgroup emerged from our Operations Committee as stakeholders in the Revenue Cycle grapple with emerging trends, including telehealth, Value-Based Payment, and the integration of behavioral health services and providers.
Open to: Full and Participating Members
Clinical Quality Improvement
This workgroup identifies and monitors progress on key measures for our largest project, while also developing strategies to adopt promising practices and evidence-based interventions to address our project’s clinical areas of focus, including diabetes, hypertension, cancer screening, and Opioid Use. We often bring it outside speakers to share the latest.
Open to: All members, Providers, and QI professionals
HIT
The technology landscape in community health centers is constantly evolving, and it has its own unique vocabulary, vendors, trends, and stakeholders. In this group, we collaborate with our health centers to navigate the dynamic landscape and successfully adopt and implement the most effective technologies.
Open to: All members’ CIOs, IT directors, et al.
Online Learning
HealthEfficient offers an Online Learning Management Platform. Its modules may be related to compliance and standard personnel policies and requirements, or to clinical activities. This peer group enables administrators to share best practices and approaches with one another.
Open to: Health Centers’ administrators of our online learning platform